"Kesh ambush On 2 December 1984, a four man Provisional IRA Active Service Unit was ambushed by a British Army Special Air Service team while attempting to bomb a Royal Ulster Constabulary patrol who they had lured to Drumrush Lodge Restaurant. Two IRA Volunteers and one SAS soldier were killed during the action. Prior to the ambush, the IRA had started to intensify their campaign against the British state. Two months earlier, in October 1984, the IRA carried out a bomb attack on the Grand Hotel in Brighton, England, which was being used as the base for the Conservative Party's"
"It was built for members of the upper classes visiting Brighton and Hove and remains one of the most expensive hotels in the city. Among its advanced engineering features at the time was the ""Vertical Omnibus"", a hydraulically powered lift powered by cisterns in the roof. This was the first lift built in the United Kingdom outside London, at a time when only two others had been installed. The building itself is an example of Italian influence in Victorian architecture. The hotel was bombed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) in the early morning of 12 October 1984, in"
"soldiers and wounding some 50 soldiers and civilians (see Hyde Park and Regent's Park bombings). In 1984, in the Brighton hotel bombing, the IRA tried to assassinate British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet. She survived, but five people including Sir Anthony Berry, a Conservative Party Member of Parliament, Eric Taylor, the northwest party chairman, and three wives (Muriel Maclean, Jeanne Shattock, and Roberta Wakeham) of party officials were killed. Margaret Tebbit, wife of Norman Tebbit, was left permanently disabled. On several more occasions, the Provisional IRA attacked British troops stationed in Great Britain, the most lethal of which"
"1982, two bombs killed 11 British soldiers and injured 50 soldiers and civilians during the Hyde Park and Regent's Park bombings. This was the deadliest IRA attack against the British Army in England during The Troubles. In December 1983 six people were killed and 90 injured in London when an IRA car bomb exploded outside Harrods. The IRA's most notable attack in Britain on that period occurred in Brighton in October 1984 when they killed five people and injured dozens during the Brighton hotel bombing which was an attempt to kill British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. In 1986, Paul Kavanagh"
"was boosted by large donations of arms from Libya in the 1980s (see Provisional IRA arms importation) due to Muammar Gaddafi's anger at Thatcher's government for assisting the Reagan government's bombing of Tripoli, which had killed one of Gaddafi's children, as well as by monies from pro-IRA partisans in the United States and elsewhere throughout the Irish diaspora. The INLA was highly active in the early and mid-1980s. In 1982, it bombed a disco frequented by off-duty British soldiers, killing 11 soldiers and six civilians. One of the IRA's most high-profile actions in this period was the Brighton hotel bombing"
"Shipman' and giving him a slap on the back and a special award from the BMA."" Patrick Magee (Irish republican) Patrick Joseph Magee (born 1951) is a former Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteer, best known for planting a bomb in the Brighton Grand Hotel targeting Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet, which killed five people. He is sometimes referred to as the ""Brighton bomber"". Patrick Magee was born in Belfast and moved with his family to Norwich when he was four years old. He returned to Belfast at the age of 20 in 1971 and later joined the"
"Margaret Tebbit Margaret Elizabeth Tebbit, Lady Tebbit, née Daines, is a former nurse who was severely and permanently paralysed by the IRA's 12 October 1984 bombing of the Grand Hotel in Brighton, where she was staying with her husband, Norman Tebbit, then Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, during the Conservative Party Conference. She married Norman Tebbit in 1956. They have two sons and a daughter. Prior to her injury, she worked as a nurse at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London. After the bomb explosion, she spent two years in Stoke Mandeville Hospital and the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, undergoing"
"treatment in their spinal injuries units. During this period, she recovered some use of her hands and arms. She appeared as a castaway on the BBC Radio programme ""Desert Island Discs"" on 31 December 1995. She compared her earlier experiences of severe post-natal depression with her later physical disability. She has been vice-president of the spinal cord injury charity Aspire. Margaret Tebbit Margaret Elizabeth Tebbit, Lady Tebbit, née Daines, is a former nurse who was severely and permanently paralysed by the IRA's 12 October 1984 bombing of the Grand Hotel in Brighton, where she was staying with her husband, Norman"
"Patrick Magee (Irish republican) Patrick Joseph Magee (born 1951) is a former Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteer, best known for planting a bomb in the Brighton Grand Hotel targeting Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet, which killed five people. He is sometimes referred to as the ""Brighton bomber"". Patrick Magee was born in Belfast and moved with his family to Norwich when he was four years old. He returned to Belfast at the age of 20 in 1971 and later joined the Provisional IRA. In June 1973, he was interned during Operation Demetrius. He was released in November"
"Northern Ireland was in a violent phase. Insurgents planted bombs and assassinated its foes, including in 1979 Airey Neave, Thatcher's close friend who was slated to take charge there. The Irish National Liberation Army (INLA), a republican paramilitary group, claimed responsibility. On 27 August 1979, the IRA Assassinated Lord Mountbatten, a member of the royal family, and other units killed 18 policeman. Sheer luck on the early morning of 12 October 1984 saved Thatcher's life as five were killed by a bomb planted by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in Brighton's Grand Hotel during the Conservative Party conference. In 1981,"
"living conditions. Thatcher refused to countenance a return to political status for the prisoners, having declared ""Crime is crime is crime; it is not political"", Nevertheless, the British government privately contacted republican leaders in a bid to bring the hunger strikes to an end. After the deaths of Sands and nine others, the strike ended. Some rights were restored to paramilitary prisoners, but not official recognition of political status. Violence in Northern Ireland escalated significantly during the hunger strikes. Thatcher narrowly escaped injury in an IRA assassination attempt at a Brighton hotel early in the morning on 12 October 1984."
"with some of the victims. Carlton Club bombing On 26 June 1990, the Provisional IRA detonated a bomb at the Carlton Club, a club in London popular among MPs and supporters of the ruling Conservative Party. The bombing injured 20 people, one of whom, Lord Kaberry of Adel, died a year later. The ground collapsed to the basement and windows were shattered. The blast was felt up to half a mile away. In a statement, the IRA said: ""Like Brighton in 1984, the IRA has brought the war directly to those who keep the British Army on the streets and"
"Jo Berry Joanna Cynthia Berry (born 1957) is a British peace activist and public speaker. She is the daughter of the Hon. Sir Anthony Berry, who was killed by the IRA in the Brighton hotel bombing on 12 October 1984. The bomb was planted by Patrick Magee, whom Berry publicly met in November 2000 in an effort at achieving reconciliation as envisioned in the wake of the Good Friday Agreement. Berry lives in Somerset, England. Through her mother, she is a first cousin of Diana, Princess of Wales. After her father died, she committed her life to peaceful resolution and"
"when the attackers threw a bomb into his bedroom window on 22 December 1974. After the 1975 PIRA–British Army truce began to break, the IRA's Balcombe Street ASU stepped up its bombing and shooting campaign on mainland Britain. On the night of 18 November 1975 the unit picked Walton's Restaurant to bomb. Two civilians, Audrey Edgson (aged 45) and Theodore Williams (aged 49), were killed when a bomb was thrown by one of the IRA Volunteers through the window of Walton's Restaurant in Walton Street, Chelsea. The device injured 23 other people, the oldest of them 71 years of age."
"Imperial Hotel bombing 1972 The Imperial Hotel bombing was a no-warning car bombing carried out by the Ulster Loyalist paramilitary group the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) on the Imperial Hotel situated along the Cliftonville Road close to the Antrim Road in Belfast. The attack was aimed at killing Irish Catholics but instead only one Catholic was killed in the bombing, the other two victims were both Protestants. At least 50 people were injured in the attack both Protestant & Catholic, 14 of them seriously injured, many of the old people in the nursing home next door suffered from shock. The"
"target in the Brighton hotel bombing of October 1984. British military intelligence informed Thatcher that she could not take the IRA head on and the likelihood of never-ending violence persuaded her to seek a political solution to the Troubles. The Anglo-Irish Agreement's origins lay in the behind-the-scenes negotiations between the British and Irish foreign offices, co-ordinated by the Cabinet Secretary, Robert Armstrong, and the secretary to the Irish government, Dermot Nally. The New Ireland Forum had been founded (with the backing of then-Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald) in May 1983 by John Hume in an attempt to undercut support for the IRA"
"in August 1988, the Provisional Irish Republican Army carried out the Inglis Barracks bombing, which killed one British soldier and injured 10 others. It was the first IRA attack in England since the infamous Brighton hotel bombing back in October 1984 On Monday 20 February 1989, the Provisional IRA exploded two bombs at Clive Barracks at Ternhill. Two IRA members were spotted while they were planting one of the three bombs they had and the alarm was raise by a sentry, Lance-Corporal Alan Norris. The two IRA members escaped with a stolen car they had hijacked just down the road,"
"Bedford Hotel (Brighton) The Bedford Hotel is a hotel on the seafront in Brighton, England which has subsequently been renamed the Holiday Inn Brighton after becoming a part of the Holiday Inn business. The original hotel dated from 1829, but the current building opened in 1967. Pre-dating Brighton's more famous Grand Hotel by over 30 years, the Bedford opened in October 1829, having been built for William Manfield. The late Georgian-style hotel was subsequently leased to its designer, Thomas Cooper, in 1835. This arrangement lasted only until the following year, after which Manfield ran it again until 1844 when he"
"Carlton Tower & Portman Hotel shootings On the 19 January 1975 the Provisional IRA's Balcombe Street Gang carried out two separate gun attacks on hotels in London, England. It was the first attack of 1975 carried out by IRA unit who had been responsible for the Woolwich pub bombing & Guildford pub bombings which resulted in the deaths of seven people (5 off-duty British soldiers & 2 civilians) just a few months earlier. In total 12 people were injured from both attacks. The first attack was carried out on the Portman Hotel in Portman Square, the IRA team headed by"
"Royal Albion Hotel The Royal Albion Hotel (originally the Albion Hotel) is a 3-star hotel in the seaside resort of Brighton, part of the English city of Brighton and Hove. Built on the site of a house belonging to Richard Russell, a local doctor whose advocacy of sea-bathing and seawater drinking helped to make Brighton fashionable in the 18th century, it has been extended several times, although it experienced a period of rundown and closure in the early 20th century. A fire in 1998 caused serious damage, but the hotel was restored. The Classical-style building is in three parts of"
"1984 Enfield Southgate by-election The Enfield Southgate by-election, 1984 was a parliamentary by-election held on 13 December 1984 for the British House of Commons constituency of Enfield Southgate. The seat had become vacant on 12 October 1984 in sudden and tragic circumstances, when the constituency's Member of Parliament (MP) was killed by the Irish Republican Army in the Brighton hotel bombing. Sir Anthony George Berry (12 February 1925 – 12 October 1984) was a Conservative MP for Enfield Southgate, and a Whip in Margaret Thatcher's government. Sir Anthony Berry had been Southgate's MP since the 1964 general election. The constituency"
"Carlton Club bombing On 26 June 1990, the Provisional IRA detonated a bomb at the Carlton Club, a club in London popular among MPs and supporters of the ruling Conservative Party. The bombing injured 20 people, one of whom, Lord Kaberry of Adel, died a year later. The ground collapsed to the basement and windows were shattered. The blast was felt up to half a mile away. In a statement, the IRA said: ""Like Brighton in 1984, the IRA has brought the war directly to those who keep the British Army on the streets and in the fields of Ireland."
"cost-cutting was brought sharply into focus in the Brighton hotel bombing on the Conservative cabinet in October 1984. The night before the terrorist attack, TV-am sent the production team home as it could not afford to pay for hotel rooms. When the blast occurred in the early hours, the BBC and ITN provided immediate coverage. TV-am's response was limited to a caption of reporter John Stapleton reporting over the phone, while the BBC were showing graphic coverage of the attack. Trade union agreements at the time meant that technical staff at the local ITV station TVS could not provide cover"
"Walton's Restaurant bombing On 18 November 1975 an Irish Republican Army (IRA) unit nicknamed the Balcombe Street Gang without warning threw a bomb into Walton's Restaurant in Walton Street, Knightsbridge, London, killing two people and injuring almost two dozen others. The IRA began a bombing campaign on Britain on 8 March 1973 when they exploded a car bomb outside the Old Bailey which injured 180 people and one man died from a heart attack. The IRA unit responsible for the Old Bailey bombing were arrested trying to leave the country. Thereafter to try to help avoid their active service units"
"delays developed by IRA technicians could be set to accurately detonate a bomb weeks after it was hidden, which is what happened in the Brighton hotel bomb attack of 1984. Initially, bombs were detonated either by timer or by simple command wire. Later, bombs could be detonated by radio control. Initially, simple servos from radio-controlled aircraft were used to close the electrical circuit and supply power to the detonator. After the British developed jammers, IRA technicians introduced devices that required a sequence of pulsed radio codes to arm and detonate them. These were harder to jam. Roadside bombs were extensively"
"marketing and sales excellence throughout the provence in the 2011 Northern Ireland Tourism Awards. The Continuity IRA was blamed for a bomb attack in July 1996 on the hotel during the first IRA ceasefire, although it did not officially admit the attack. Over 250 people were evacuated from the hotel, but the explosion injured 17 people, including members of a wedding party, and destroyed much of the recently refurbished hotel. Over 1,000 lbs of homemade explosives had been packed in a vehicle and left at the hotel. The front of the Killyhevlin Hotel collapsed, scores of parked cars were burned"
"meetings. Bedrooms are classified in four grades, from standard to deluxe. It has a 3-star rating. Royal Albion Hotel The Royal Albion Hotel (originally the Albion Hotel) is a 3-star hotel in the seaside resort of Brighton, part of the English city of Brighton and Hove. Built on the site of a house belonging to Richard Russell, a local doctor whose advocacy of sea-bathing and seawater drinking helped to make Brighton fashionable in the 18th century, it has been extended several times, although it experienced a period of rundown and closure in the early 20th century. A fire in 1998"
"of such remarks; jokes about the tragedy were cracked on radio and television programmes. A working-men's club in South Yorkshire seriously considered a whip-round ""to pay for the bomber to have another go"". In 1986, English punk band the Angelic Upstarts celebrated the IRA's assassination attempt with their single ""Brighton Bomb"". They released an album of the same name in 1987. Thirty years on people still relive the horror of the event. Once investigators had narrowed the seat of the blast to the bathroom of Room 629, police began to track down everyone who had stayed in the room. This"
"a long term truce with the British government. The truce officially lasted until January 1976, but the IRA broke the truce on 27 August 1975 when they bombed a pub in Caterham, Surrey injuring over 30 people. A month before the bombing outside Green Park station, the IRA unit bombed the Hilton Hotel in London on 5 September 1975 which killed two people and injured over 60 others. At around 21:00 GMT on 9 October 1975, a bomb thrown at a bus stop just outside Green Park Underground station exploded, killing a homeless man (23-year-old Graham Ronald Tuck), who died"
"transformed in the 19th century. However, the area has often been a target for high-profile crime. In 1975, the Walton's Restaurant bombing occurred, in which two civilians were killed by a Provisional IRA bomb. In 1980, the Iranian Embassy siege took place in Knightsbridge, lasting several days. It ended when the Special Air Service stormed the building, which was on live television. In 1983, three Christmas shoppers and three Metropolitan Police officers were killed by an IRA car-bomb placed outside Harrods. In 1987, the Knightsbridge Security Deposit centre was the target of a robbery, and the thieves left with a"
"the Brighton hotel bombing during the Conservative Party Conference when her hotel room was bombed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army. Five people died in the attack, including Roberta Wakeham, wife of the Government's Chief Whip John Wakeham, and Conservative MP Sir Anthony Berry. A prominent member of the Cabinet, Norman Tebbit, was injured, and his wife Margaret was left paralysed. Thatcher herself escaped assassination by sheer luck. She insisted that the conference open on time the next day and made her speech as planned in defiance of the bombers, a gesture which won widespread approval across the political spectrum."
"26 February 1975, Stephen Tibble, a 22 year old police officer of the Metropolitan Police, was fatally shot by Liam Quinn, a member of the Provisional IRA, after a chase near Barons Court tube station. It was later discovered that a flat on Fairholme Road was used by the IRA and Quinn himself as a 'bomb factory'. Local business consists of small shops, offices and restaurants, with the Olympia Exhibition Centre nearby. West Kensington is within easy reach of Earl's Court, and the Broadways of Fulham, Hammersmith and Notting Hill. There are several pubs and hotels, including ""The Albion"" public"
"renamed the Britannia Inter-Continental London in 1981 when Grand Metropolitan acquired Inter-Continental Hotels. The hotel was acquired by Millennium & Copthorne Hotels on October 7, 1996 and renamed Millennium Britannia Hotel. It was renovated in 2000 and again renamed Millennium Hotel London Mayfair. The hotel comprises 336 bedrooms, several corporate boardrooms and a ballroom. The hotel's Pine Bar was the site of the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko in 2006. Millennium Hotel Mayfair Millennium Hotel London Mayfair is a 4-star luxury hotel in the Mayfair area of London, England. The hotel is currently closed due to renovation and will reopen in"